Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick?: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City

by Bernadette McCauley

Book Overview

This rich history chronicles the prominent role of Catholic women religious in establishing the hospitals at the core of New York City's extensive Catholic medical network. Beginning with the opening of St. Vincent's Hospital in 1849, Bernadette McCauley relates how determined and pragmatic women of faith worked over the next eighty years to place the Catholic Church in the mainstream of American medicine.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882168
• ISBN13: 9780801882166
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"